UK Arts International presents

Danny Hoch - Hip Hop Theatre 101

Available for UK and International touring throughout 2008 and 2009.

Danny Hoch is one of the hip-hop generation's leading theatre artists and activists.

“Part sociologist, part moralist and part super-chameleon, possessed of both sharp observational distance and bone-deep empathy” New York Times

As a monologuist, playwright and actor, Danny Hoch’s work has brought hip-hop's culture and language to the stage and screen, and brought theatre into the fray of the "new hip-hop elements". Although hip-hop theatre has proven itself a formidable global arts movement with a large following around the globe, it is still misunderstood and auspiciously absent from major stages.

In Hip-Hop Theatre 101, the founder of the Hip-Hop Theatre Festival and a pioneer of the movement, performs a “Hip-Hop Theatre 101” for beginners, illustrating through character monologues from his plays Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop and Till The Break Of Dawn, that hip-hop theatre is not as much about the form as it is about the hip-hop generation; and showing through spoken-word pieces from HBO Def Poetry, that issues of race, class, ownership, self-determination, incarceration, economics, police brutality, drugs, globalization and technology all contribute to what defines the hip-hop generation all over the globe. Hip-Hop Theatre 101 is an evening of theatre that is sure to ignite, inspire, educate and entertain.

This piece has recently toured to Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Netherlands and the UK and, in Spanish, Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Spain.

“The voice of a new generation” The New York Observer